Title: Pale Fire (Vintage International) Pdf
A Beautiful Glittering Jewel of a Book This beautiful and complicated novel rewards the reader on several levels, and that's just on first reading. It is elegantly structured. The first level looks simple enough -- an introduction of a poem, the poem itself, and then a series of notes on the poem -- but this explodes into complexity when you begin to understand just how unreliable a narrator we are dealing with, and just how wild are his beliefs about the poem (and about everything?) That makes it into a bit of a mystery. Who is the narrator? what is his real relation to the poet. The language of course is gorgeous (this is Nabokov, after all). Finally the whole thing is terribly funny, as an examination of delusion and as a takedown of the American liberal arts college. I plan to re-read the book, and to read a book of criticism about it ( Brian Boyd's "'Pale Fire': The Magic of Artistic Discovery"). After that I may revise the review, but for now I can only say how glad I am that I finally read it.Nothing like I expected, and so much fun! We read this for book club, and when I picked it up I aged through it and thought, "Oh. Fantastic. A poem and commentary from the 1950, that's going to be a snooze-fest." I could not have been more wrong. This is possibly the best book I have ever read: hilarious deadpan satire and a suspenseful thriller in one!Reading it is like watching a SNL skit come to life. The poem is fabulous, let's start there. If you like poetry at all, you'll be enchanted by it. If you don't, don't worry it's short. Then the commentary starts out kind of blah blah blah.... until you realize the neighbor who wrote it was psychotic, a narcissist, and stalking the author! His over-the-top comments are so bad, they're hysterical. The ending commentary goes into details about the commentator's life and escape from a fictional government uprising, and develops the whole thing into a work of fiction that twine the two men's lives together.10/10. Highly recommended. It's so different than anything else out there, and I enjoyed every minute.A fun puzzle by one of the great 20th century authors This was an amazing read, and my first exposure to Nabokov. Effortless verse, beautiful prose, but most of all, an intricate, multi-layered story.Important: this book has been analyzed at length in the decades since it was published, so if you want to avoid spoilers, don't Google *anything* until you're finished.
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